Hey, guys! Just a quick announcement today for y’all:
One of the easiest ways to get published is to send your work to relatively new magazines–since word hasn’t really gotten out about them yet.
Five Quarterly and its sister site Almost Five Quarterly are two such magazines. Five Quarterly features a rotating panel of guest editors to select the poems and stories that appear in each of their issues.
Though I was told that my fiction submission, “The Widower,” barely missed the cut for Five Quarterly, a founder and editor, Vanessa Gabb, solicited it from me for Almost Five Quarterly, and it just posted on their website today!
Check it out by clicking here. I hope you like it!
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June 7, 2013
Congrats!! That’s great news!
June 7, 2013
Thanks! I’m sorry for sharing such a depressing short story, though. Ha.
Well, at least it’s not as upsetting as last week’s “Red Wedding” from Game of Thrones. I’m still recovering from that!
June 7, 2013
Congratulations on your recent publication. I can see why you love writing. You are very talented, and you have a second gift, which is helping others develop and promote their art in Creative Writing.
June 7, 2013
Thank you, Glennsby, old sport! I’m trying.
June 7, 2013
Fun story. Now I understand what you mean about your stories being “bold.” (Ha.) So I need to know, was the time between sections Tom checking his watch?
June 7, 2013
Thanks, Edwin. I’m sure I know what scene you’re talking about! Ha.
To answer your question, the white space definitely could be. I never looked at it that way before, but I see how it could be read like that.
I added the time markers while editing to play up the oppressive nature of being on the wrong side of time–and the cyclical nature of Tom’s routines. I tried to integrate them into the story by pulling from the world around Tom, using the alarm clock, the watch, the fax, the microwave, etc.
Thanks for reading it, and thanks for your comments!